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Paying for Apple iTunes with PayPal
MrIcee writes "While cruising eBay today I noted that some clever individual has apparently stepped up to fill the void left by the fact that Apple's iTunes service does not accept PayPal. While insisting that buyers follow Apple's terms of service, is buying and reselling the gift certificate legal or not? If legal, it's an interesting and simple idea that could be applied to many areas." It is pretty neat, even if the $16 markup is a little ludicrous. It's like the old adage: a fool and his PayPal account are soon parted.
I have one of the debit cards, and I used it like a credit card all the time (it's where my personal allowance money from my bank account goes). It'll also use your checking account to pull funds from if you don't keep a balance in your paypal account.
In my unscientific survey, (reload, count to 20 mississippi, hit reload again) that comes to about 33 hits per second. Not bad for an ebay listing. :)
Great, another middleman between musicians and fans. Are we moving backwards through the internet??
I believe the point is that the iTunes Music Store requires that any credit card used have an address inside the United States.
Reselling gift certificates would then allow folks outside the U.S. to access the store as if they were in the U.S.
Except I think you have to have valid credit card information whether or not you use a gift certificate. I am not certain, though.
--plambert
Well... maybe not quite the usual slashdotting. Thanks to your post, half the slashdotters are sitting on the page pressing reload over and over... making the count even higher.
Random rants about technology: http://technorants.blogspot.com
Actually it's a double /.ing from all the people reloading to watch the counter go up!
I stole this Sig